Canonical's X Gesture Extension Being Re-Evaluated

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"Earlier this month Canonical introduced its own multi-touch
framework for Ubuntu that is set to premiere with Ubuntu 10.10
"Maverick Meerkat" and it's called UTouch and is joined by their
own gesture/touch language. That same day as announcing UTouch for
Ubuntu that will support devices like the Apple Magic TrackPad and
Dell XT2, Canonical proposed the X.Org Gesture Extension to the
X.Org development community. While it's good to see Canonical
making more contributions to upstream projects that it depends upon
for Ubuntu Linux, the X.Org Gesture Extension is already being
re-evaluated and may in fact not be needed.

"Since Canonical's Chase Douglas published his xorg-devel email
in which he laid out their proposed specification for X.Org Gesture
Extension protocol v1.0, there's been some dissenting opinions by
X.Org developers about how the gesture recognition should be
handled"